babysitter

noun2

1. •
   A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.

   • My neighbor is sometimes a babysitter for other mothers’ children.
2. •
   A person who has to watch or attend to anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; a coddler or handholder.

   • He said he did not want to be on tenterhooks worrying about us and having to act as a babysitter for grown men. — 2005